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Flowers & Food: Ink Making & Instant Colour (1 in a 4-part series)

Wed, Nov 11, 6:00 PM UTC · School Farm CSA, Dartington, Totnes, UK

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  "createdAt": "2026-09-30T12:43:49Z",
  "description": "### **Flowers & Food: Ink Making & Instant Colour**\n\nPart 1 in a series of 4 evening Colour Lab workshops\n\nLearn how to make your own watercolour inks from flowers, plants and food waste. \n\n![](https://r2.dandelion.events/2026/10/02/09/52/51/37ddbb5a-6c00-47e2-9685-762042699425/flowers3.jpeg)\n\nIn this workshop, you’ll learn a simple recipe for watercolour ink making and learn an ‘instant ink’ method for testing new ingredients you find at home and out on the land. You’ll receive an introduction to some commonly used dye plants and understand which food waste ingredients give the best colours for artwork. There'll be time for creative play and drawing with the inks, as well as demos for how to expand your range of colours. \n\n**You'll go home with:** a jar of your own ink, colour sample cards, recipe handouts, and any drawings you've made.\n\nOpen to anyone aged 18+, no previous experience required. Materials and refreshments provided.\n\n![](https://r2.dandelion.events/2026/10/02/09/54/11/1a8021f5-2aa9-4924-b413-2cdc37bda58a/flowers2.jpeg)\n\n* * *\n\nThis workshop is Part 1 in a series of 4 evening Colour Lab workshops, running the second Wednesday of each month, November–February, 6-8:30pm, at School Farm, Totnes.\n\nYou can come to any of the sessions as a stand-alone workshop or join all 4 for a full course in learning how to make inks, paints, pigments & paper dyes from plants, minerals & waste products.\n\nFull programme:\n\n1. **Flowers & Food:** Ink Making & Instant Colour, Wednesday 11th November\n2. **Trees & Metals:** Mordants & Modifiers, Wednesday 9th December\n3. **Paper & Prints:** Paper dyeing & Eco-printing, Wednesday 13th January\n4. **Earth & Minerals:** Pigments & Paints, Wednesday 10th February\n\n**£45 per workshop / £160 for all 4** (select the ‘All 4’ ticket on purchase)\n\n![](https://r2.dandelion.events/2026/10/02/09/55/26/59df5169-0d38-4cbb-814e-3c68e6093fd3/flowers4.JPG)",
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